Phone hacking comedy heads to Channel 4

Rupert Murdoch: who will play the News Corp boss? Photograph: Bobby Bank/WireImage

The writer of Drop the Dead Donkey is creating a TV comedy about phone hacking at the News of the World. Channel 4 is to see the funny side of (alleged) News International misdeeds in the upcoming comedy, dubbed Hacks. The important development might have gone without mention if it wasn't for a story in, er, the now-defunct NoW stablemate, the Times.

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